7 Marchhall Crescent, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996. Double villa.

7 Marchhall Crescent, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
lapsed-joist-bracken
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1996
Type
Double villa
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Circa 1880. 2-storey, 4-bay, symmetrical double villa with idiosyncratic details; single storey wings with attics adjoining house to sides and extending to rear. Red sandstone coursed rubble with ashlar dressings to principal elevation; squared and snecked rubble to sides and rear. Base course; advanced cills to 1st floor windows; deep cornice.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorways to 2 central bays; panelled doors; round-arched, plate glass fanlights; pedimented bracketed hoodmoulds, pilasters and decoratively carved keystones to doorpieces; single windows above with slightly arched architraves and decorative brackets to cills. Full-height, 3-light, canted windows to outer bays; ground floor central lights segmental-arched; plain, tapering aprons to central 1st floor windows above.

N AND S ELEVATIONS: single storey wings with attics to E bays and protruding to rear of house.

Plate glass, timber, sash and case windows to No 9; modern replacement pivot windows to No 7. Grey slate piended roof (slate roofs to attics of wings); coursed, coped wallhead stacks; canted, pedimented dormers flanking coped, central ridge stack.

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